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That may or may not be true in aggregate, but for extreme outliers it's impossible to separate from survivorship bias. Are Musk and Andreeson really the most skilled entrepreneurs in the world or are they just good enough for luck to propel them to stratospheric success?

It's a little light on rigor. There's a lot of "X happened before Y therefore X caused Y" but I think it's a really good articulation of some of the problems it tackles.

"this violates our TOS" is a classic Accountability Sink. "Polymarket has a rule against harassment, so we obviously did all we could!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine

Then Google shouldn't be using something so unreliable for anything important. Arguing that random users should know the difference between cheap and frontier models is also not compelling. It's all the same "AI" to most people.

I'd be shocked if international travel was the algorithmic tell, but in the book Careless People, the author discusses extensively that they (Facebook's political team) did a lot of manually curating the experience for politicians across the world to help push for Facebook's side in whatever issue was important on a given day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People

They absolutely can afford to be a-political. It may not maximize their wealth, but they can afford a little less maximizing.

Renters often pay for utilities.

Fun fact: Bose is 51% owned by MIT (non voting shares) https://news.mit.edu/2011/bose-gift

I use it regularly

Norway is a sovereign nation, so what's the argument against them taking action based on the Gaza genocide?

If Microsoft were providing "general purpose compute to Iran" the US would sanction them.

Well in this case the executive branch isn't even following congressionally appropriations, so one could argue that this particular shut down is more caused by the president than any other in history.

The republicans have a clear majority in all three houses. They can reopen if they want to.

The consequences of the 2024 election in which he played a significant role. This "budget debacle" is a direct consequence.

Also, Elon has weighed in quite aggressively on prior budgetary fights, so it would be crazy to say his influence isn't being felt here. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5046887-elon-musk-slam...

Given how much he contributed to the election outcome it hardly seems tired to blame him for the consequences.

Plus he's on Twitter every week publicly discussing how much he uses the platform to put his thumb on the scale of discourse towards his personal beliefs.

In what world is he not involved?

Don't you mean "we" have a cool blog? Looks like you work there.

It's open source software that runs on donations, so... yeah? https://xcancel.com/about

This is to avoid blogspam not paywalls.

How can one fix car transportation? More lanes?

Yes! That's the tradeoff and the market prices it in.

People who want to live in less dense houses farther from the city can already do that!

With the CEQA reform from a couple months ago, those court cases should be lessened a bit.

The long tail is very long

This does not require the bluesky app. I'm not in Mississippi, but people on bluesky are reporting that these alternative AT Proto apps work fine there and grant full access to the same content.

There are other instances running: https://zeppelin.social/

The reverse is true. There are other relays that are still functional as you'd expect in a decentralized network: https://zeppelin.social/

Plex

This is a very online oriented debate. Derek Thompson might hear mostly from left coded anti-trust types on twitter, but I really don't think that's the main opponent to abundance.

If you spend time in the individual communities where this battle happens, the voice of the classic NIMBY (worried about property values and crime) drowns out the left-NIMBYs that worry about "greedy developers" and gentrification. At least that's been my experience in West LA. Many of the less-online left critics eventually come around to realize that upzoning type solutions and public housing type solutions aren't actually in conflict with each other even if they disagree on relative priority and impact.

I use MyShake which will let me get alerts based on specific magnitude cutoffs. I actually just ratcheted up my "global" alert from 7.5 to 8 because of all the alerts from the last couple weeks in the pacific.

I haven't seen suggestion of businesses suffering

> Others have said it would hurt businesses in the congestion zone. The report, however, says pedestrian activity inside the zone was up 8.4% in May, compared with the same period last year, while outside the zone only saw an increase of 2.7%.

And from an earlier post

> And just to take a different kind of measure, The New York Times visited 40 storefronts on a stretch of Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village to gauge how businesses felt about congestion pricing. People working in four of those businesses said the change had been positive, 10 said it had been negative — and 25 said it had had no impact.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/conges...